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This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:
It's funny, it's like Polyphony doesn't know what to do with their game; as you said, both sides are neglected. Single player is a joke, and Sport mode is plagued by the bad penalty system.I'm somehow not surprised to see the complete lack of sympathy by many people here. It's interesting - it highlights the dichotomy the franchise is suffering from since the release of GT Sport.
Two completely contrasting playerbases both wanting completely different things
From what I've seen and heard many players started getting warnings in Nations Cup and messages were sent out stating they needed to keep it clean. That PD counts this as fair warning to all of them is no surprise. PD is notorious for being opaque and silent on what they mean and want, but I can say some of the penalized incidents I've seen wouldn't even make another driver below the top 2 splits raise an eyebrow as it's often no holds barred full contact racing and little bumps and nudges don't even get noticed.it's crazy all the "issues" noted were straight to a DQ. No warning, no wrist slapping, no in-race or post-race five (or 10) second penalties. None of that... straight to the harshest penalty that can be doled out. Like, even the Genny driver at the WS event (Romero?) who all but killed the Lambo driver (Haywood?) - who was having an amazing race up to that point - and got a 1.0s pen that ended up not even mattering as he was able to jump into slip and be right back up with the pack by the end of Dottenger.
I can't imagine putting in the time these people do, have a hard race where there's some rubbin-is-racin going on but nothing malicious or dirty, and finding out days later your race and points are retroactively being taken away in an email - especially with said "issue" happened in a race your points aren't even from! Like, these guys are the game's biggest ambassadors and this is how they're treated? What a kick in the stones.
Well said buddy. This just totally undermines their current penalty system and imo, validates all of our concerns about it.As you can probably tell from the article, I think this penalty is disproportionate...
... but I also think that focusing on the at-most 48 players in each region who race "top split" (ugh) GTWS races and leaving five-figures of players to be screwed over by far worse behaviour every race is - while logistically sane - irritating.
Had someone been watching my TGRGT race at Laguna Seca, I'd have gained five places.
Except I wouldn't, because they're disqualifying people a week later and not (again, probably for reasons stated in the article) bumping up the people they robbed places off...
And there's a mild irony to being this hard on a driver they gave a 1s penalty to in a World Final after he - entirely innocently, in an error everyone should 100% understand - demolished the Lamborghini (and he also concurred that the penalty was unexpectedly mild).
I'm not seeing who this helps right now.
it's crazy all the "issues" noted were straight to a DQ. No warning, no wrist slapping, no in-race or post-race five (or 10) second penalties. None of that... straight to the harshest penalty that can be doled out. Like, even the Genny driver at the WS event (Romero?) who all but killed the Lambo driver (Haywood?) - who was having an amazing race up to that point - and got a 1.0s pen that ended up not even mattering as he was able to jump into slip and be right back up with the pack by the end of Dottenger.
I can't imagine putting in the time these people do, have a hard race where there's some rubbin-is-racin going on but nothing malicious or dirty, and finding out days later your race and points are retroactively being taken away in an email - especially with said "issue" happened in a race your points aren't even from! Like, these guys are the game's biggest ambassadors and this is how they're treated? What a kick in the stones.
This.Sadly some of these with the overpowering desire to win at all costs are among the worst racers in the game.
Hello, I'm Team Manager of Bertani (OP Team)it's crazy all the "issues" noted were straight to a DQ. No warning, no wrist slapping, no in-race or post-race five (or 10) second penalties. None of that... straight to the harshest penalty that can be doled out. Like, even the Genny driver at the WS event (Romero?) who all but killed the Lambo driver (Haywood?) - who was having an amazing race up to that point - and got a 1.0s pen that ended up not even mattering as he was able to jump into slip and be right back up with the pack by the end of Dottenger.
I can't imagine putting in the time these people do, have a hard race where there's some rubbin-is-racin going on but nothing malicious or dirty, and finding out days later your race and points are retroactively being taken away in an email - especially with said "issue" happened in a race your points aren't even from! Like, these guys are the game's biggest ambassadors and this is how they're treated? What a kick in the stones.
The issue isn't that they're enforcing driving standards, but the timing, process and severity in which they are now being enforced.Good.
Another one posted half an hour ago, the Porsche and Alfa Romeo have both been disqualified:
Another one posted half an hour ago, the Porsche and Alfa Romeo have both been disqualified:
PD must only have the power to delete scores instead of giving proper penalties, I can see why the Alfa player was pissed off, you can't crowd somebody off the road like that when they have that kind of overlap. With the time loss from being pushed off and then dirty tyres for the whole middle sector he would have lost about 5 seconds.Well, at least the alfas move is the first one I think is just to have a DSQ lol.
Porsche DSQ for the smallest squeeze ever is crazy. that can very very easily be an honest mistake, and even then would usually not result in bad consequences. No reason to disqualify based on that. Points penalty, sure. But to lose the entire round over an inch of car width? Mental.
Seems that way, especially based on the article Famine posted. It doesn't seem like PD have the ability to change the points after the race. Like in F1 if you finish 1st but a pen demotes you to 2nd you get 18 points, the guy who was in 2nd gets promoted to 1st for 25 points, and everyone from P3 down is unaffected. Seems simple enough!PD must only have the power to delete scores instead of giving proper penalties, I can see why the Alfa player was pissed off, you can't crowd somebody off the road like that when they have that kind of overlap. With the time loss from being pushed off and then dirty tyres for the whole middle sector he would have lost about 5 seconds.
I would've give the Porsche a 5s penalty post race and the Alfa a DSQ but that's obviously not possible.